From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAW netfilter - "advanced netfilter setting" or not?
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:11:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECDEE3C.1030306@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxPHAf7DDD4cd3ZHNhwdbV4ijSZz83U5=5BzYqgiVKdtg@mail.gmail.com>
On 23.11.2011 23:58, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
>>
>> Right, but how would you decide what will be enabled/disabled by
>> default? It seems unlikely you will be adding a patch (like Dave's)
>> everytime a default distro installation throws certain errors once
>> you run your own kernel configs.
>
> I do think that "major distributions do this by default" should simply
> be the point for deciding it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Agreed, that's also the criteria we used when we introduced this option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-24 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-23 19:45 RAW netfilter - "advanced netfilter setting" or not? Linus Torvalds
2011-11-23 19:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-11-23 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-23 20:51 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-11-23 21:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-11-23 22:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-23 22:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-11-23 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-24 7:11 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
[not found] <CA+55aFzvZowH1_bA66VZ5Aw0wF3KzdGSqiNZLw46J3u4gpKnxA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-23 21:07 ` David Miller
2011-11-23 22:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-02 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-02 3:18 ` David Miller
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